Category Archives: Leadership Development

“Leaders are not, …..

…… as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see, whether anyone is following them. “Leadership qualities” are not the qualities that enable people to attract followers, but those that enable them to do without them. They include, at the very least, courage, endurance, patience, humour, flexibility, resourcefulness, stubbornness, a keen sense of reality, and the ability to keep a cool and clear head, even when things are going badly. True leaders, in short, do not make people into followers, but into other leaders.”

– John Holt

“Our chief want is …..

……. someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If your actions create…..

…… a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.”

– Dolly Parton

“Leadership cannot really be taught…..

……. It can only be learned.”

– Harold Geneen

 

“The leaders who work most effectively……

…….. it seems to me, never say ‘I’. And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say ‘I’. They don’t think ‘I’. They think ‘we’; they think ‘team’. They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but ‘we’ gets the credit…. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.”

– Peter F. Drucker

Nothing so conclusively proves……

…….. a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.”

– Thomas J Watson Sr.

“The leaders who work most effectively….

…… it seems to me, never say ‘I’. And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say ‘I’. They don’t think ‘I’. They think ‘we’; they think ‘team’. They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but ‘we’ gets the credit…. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.”

– Peter F Drucker

“The challenge of leadership is …..

……. to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humour, but without folly.”

– Jim Rohn

“Before you are a leader…..

…….. success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”

— Jack Welch

“More than anything else today…..

……. followers believe they are part of a system, a process that lacks heart. If there is one thing a leader can do to connect with followers at a human, or better still a spiritual level, it is to become engaged with them fully, to share experiences and emotions, and to set aside the processes of leadership we have learned by rote.”

— Lance Secretan, Industry Week, October 12, 1998